Word: standard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...role model of rigor and high expectations. He set a lofty standard and challenged students to do their best," said Lawrence Buell, Marquand professor of English and Heimert's longtime colleague...
...carrots, don't eat corn," says Franca Alphin, administrative director of the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center. "Those foods are so beneficial. It's really frustrating." The low-carb diets, they insist, eventually fail. "The more unusual a diet is, the more different from the standard of what people normally eat and find around them, the more apt they are to go off the diet and regain the weight," says Dr. Bruce Zimmerman, a vice president of the American Diabetes Association and an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic...
...currently stands, Harvard routinely violates this basic standard. According to figures released from the administration in March 1999, 358 full-time and approximately 650 part-time or "casual" employees were paid less than $10 per hour for their work. Dining hall workers at Harvard Law School currently earn as little as six dollars per hour. Janitors are also among the lowest paid employees of the university, receiving $8.15 to $9.05 per hour. This amounts to $16,300 to $18,100 per year, which is hardly enough to support one person, never mind a family, living in Cambridge. Most of these...
Frank McCourt is wearing an orange button-down shirt, gray pants and a blue blazer--all standard fare for a featured author, especially when you're the speaker at a Graduate School of Education Fundraiser. McCourt, looks, unmistakably, nice. Actually, he looks like he could be my grandfather, without much of a problem. He's even got the sneakers, shining out amid a sea of loafers and lace-ups in the affluent audience...
...where the leather is abundant and the dildos come with a lifetime warranty. "Yeah, I masturbate," says one sophomore in Quincy House, "though I never thought about using a dildo--not that I opposed to it or anything." For those who might want to give it a try, a standard issue silicon dildo will run you about $35, the larger sizes or uniquely decorative pieces can be a bit more expensive. But can you really put a price tag on being able to say "I masturbate with a silver glitter dildo...